Written for the Cornhill Magazine in his last years, these essays begin anywhere, with a statue of St. Lucius in Chur, two children in mourning, ribbons and honours, Tunbridge toys or a chalk-mark on a door, and drift into reflections on youth, old habits, being found out and the world a hundred years hence.
Thackeray at his most relaxed and personal, a pleasure for readers of the Victorian familiar essay. Download the free EPUB.